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Posted on 12/01/2001 4:56:26 AM PST by Elkiejg

Infuriated that President Bush commands the overwhelming support of the American people, Democrats are now making official that which they had long ago began: a concerted effort to tear down the President, his administration, and his policies.

Since shortly after September 11th Democrats have been fuming that the War on Terrorism compelled them to act as if they were truly bi-partisan.

They were not then and they are not now.

Leftwing politicians loath the military, are repulsed by the atmospheric rise in genuine patriotism, and find the near ubiquitous displays of the flag truly distasteful.

But most of all, they are desperate to wound the President – even in a time of war – because they ultimately care only about their own political prospects for the next election.

This really should come as no surprise; after all, the Left long ago demonstrated that wielding power is their be-all and end-all.

Period.

The safety and security of the American people be damned.

How else to explain their actions since September 11th as they have refused, in the Senate, to act on the President’s judicial and executive nominations, are unwilling to act on a national energy plan – despite it’s important national security implications, have taken to outright attacking the administration’s clearly constitutional efforts to effectively bring justice to those responsible for the deaths of four thousand Americans, and are now trying to lay blame for the Clinton recession and its exacerbation by the butcher bin Laden at the doorstep of the White House?

Let’s face it, with the President’s approval ratings in the ninety percent range on virtually every question asked or issue raised, the Carvilles, the Daschles and the Gephardts have decided to go public with their true motives, because they can’t stomach the thought of not winning back the House in 2002 and the Presidency in 2004.

Those are their only concerns.

And they have calculated that to allow the President’s strength and stature to remain – in their minds – "unchecked” is to all but concede failure in their attempt to regain power.

What comes with the Presidency is the power to govern not just through the enactment of laws, which come with the President’s signature, but the more far-reaching impact and effect of law from the promulgation of rules and regulations by the myriad federal agencies.

With Republicans in control of the White House and House of Representatives, Democrat efforts to impose their will on the American people are effectively thwarted, even with their plurality control in the Senate.

Their worst nightmare is that the Senate might swing back to the Republican fold in 2002 and, partly as a result of reapportionment and the resultant redistricting, their prospects for regaining the House are dim at best.

So, what to do?

They figure that they’ve got to play politics, down and dirty, if they are to have even a fighting shot for political success over the next three years.

The President must use his strong standing, through use of the bully pulpit, to thwart these efforts, to expose their blatant self-interest at the expense of the national interest, and to look them and the American people square in the eye and tell it like it is.

Only then will the desperate Democrats realize that the game is up and they had better try public service rather than self-interest or face political oblivion and insignificance for years to come.

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